Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron

This collection of essays by ten leading British and French Renaissance specialists explores, for the first time, differing conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Four essays concentrate on problems of definition in ideological, chronological, geographical and linguistic terms; a further three address cultural exchange and political collaboration (and, inevitably, conflict) between France and England at the time of the Wars of Religion; the final three contributions focus on the construction of a European identity in the early modern period that defines itself in contrast to a significant other, be it Islamic or ‘Atlantic’. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of French Renaissance literature and to those interested in the prehistory of our contemporary conception of Europe. Contents David Introduction Notes on contributors 1. Problems of ideological, chronological, linguistic Jean ‘Voici venir d’Europe tout l’honneur’: identité aristocratique et conscience européenne au XVIe siècle Ian Christendom and Europe Margaret M. Interpreting the the Commentaries of Blaise de Vigenère and ‘l’enrichissement de nostre parler’ David ‘Si le français n’y peut aller’: Villers-Cotterêts and mixed-language documents from the Pyrenees 2. Cultural exchange and political collaboration between France and England at the time of the Wars of Religion Yvonne Sur La Lepanthe de Du Bartas Marie-Madeleine Aubigné et l’Angleterre, après esquisse de rencontres problématiques Yvonne Towards a pragmatic recognition of religious the struggle to form a royalist consensus in the early poems of Jean-Antoine de Baïf 3. Alterity and the construction of a European identity Michael Foolish or fearsome Franks? The supposed Ottoman view of European Christians in the sixteenth century Françoise Le périple des Pantagruéliens, ou l’ancien et le nouveau Frank Le Livre des Contrariété l’Occident, le Turc et les autres